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Assessments are at the heart of teaching and learning – they give us the opportunity to pause, reflect, and plan for the future. Understanding what your students are really learning is a pulse-check on your teaching. But how can you be sure that you know what your students know!

By doing authentic assessments – one where students transfer and apply their understandings and skills to real-world problems. Wondering how to create a task like that? Meet GRASPS!

Created by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, GRASPS is a powerful assessment model that helps you plan, organize, and deliver tasks that are engaging, relevant, significant, and challenging for students.

In this resource, you will get a handy resource to create performance tasks and authentic assessments for your students.

Use this resource to:

Create engaging and challenging performance tasks for your students
Co-construct success criterias with your students
Create differentiated tasks for students
Encourage students to think actively about where they are now, where they want to go, and how to get there

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Design Powerful Authentic Tasks – A Guide to Using GRASPS

Assessments are at the heart of teaching and learning - they give us the opportunity to pause, reflect, and plan for the future. Understanding what your students are really learning is a pulse-check on your teaching. But how can you be sure that you know what your students know! By doing authentic assessments - one where students transfer and apply their understandings and skills to real-world problems. Wondering how to create a task like that? Meet GRASPS! Created by Grant Wiggins and Jay McTighe, GRASPS is a powerful assessment model that helps you plan, organize, and deliver tasks that are engaging, relevant, significant, and challenging for students. In this resource, you will get a handy resource to create performance tasks and authentic assessments for your students.